The following table lists most error codes found in various operating
systems supported by FFmpeg.

                             OS
Code             Std    F  LBMWwb Text (YMMV)

E2BIG            POSIX     ++++++  Argument list too long
EACCES           POSIX     ++++++  Permission denied
EADDRINUSE       POSIX     +++..+  Address in use
EADDRNOTAVAIL    POSIX     +++..+  Cannot assign requested address
EADV                       +.....  Advertise error
EAFNOSUPPORT     POSIX     +++..+  Address family not supported
EAGAIN           POSIX  +  ++++++  Resource temporarily unavailable
EALREADY         POSIX     +++..+  Operation already in progress
EAUTH                      .++...  Authentication error
EBADARCH                   ..+...  Bad CPU type in executable
EBADE                      +.....  Invalid exchange
EBADEXEC                   ..+...  Bad executable
EBADF            POSIX     ++++++  Bad file descriptor
EBADFD                     +.....  File descriptor in bad state
EBADMACHO                  ..+...  Malformed Macho file
EBADMSG          POSIX     ++4...  Bad message
EBADR                      +.....  Invalid request descriptor
EBADRPC                    .++...  RPC struct is bad
EBADRQC                    +.....  Invalid request code
EBADSLT                    +.....  Invalid slot
EBFONT                     +.....  Bad font file format
EBUSY            POSIX  -  ++++++  Device or resource busy
ECANCELED        POSIX     +++...  Operation canceled
ECHILD           POSIX     ++++++  No child processes
ECHRNG                     +.....  Channel number out of range
ECOMM                      +.....  Communication error on send
ECONNABORTED     POSIX     +++..+  Software caused connection abort
ECONNREFUSED     POSIX  -  +++ss+  Connection refused
ECONNRESET       POSIX     +++..+  Connection reset
EDEADLK          POSIX     ++++++  Resource deadlock avoided
EDEADLOCK                  +..++.  File locking deadlock error
EDESTADDRREQ     POSIX     +++...  Destination address required
EDEVERR                    ..+...  Device error
EDOM             C89    -  ++++++  Numerical argument out of domain
EDOOFUS                    .F....  Programming error
EDOTDOT                    +.....  RFS specific error
EDQUOT           POSIX     +++...  Disc quota exceeded
EEXIST           POSIX     ++++++  File exists
EFAULT           POSIX  -  ++++++  Bad address
EFBIG            POSIX  -  ++++++  File too large
EFTYPE                     .++...  Inappropriate file type or format
EHOSTDOWN                  +++...  Host is down
EHOSTUNREACH     POSIX     +++..+  No route to host
EHWPOISON                  +.....  Memory page has hardware error
EIDRM            POSIX     +++...  Identifier removed
EILSEQ           C99       ++++++  Illegal byte sequence
EINPROGRESS      POSIX  -  +++ss+  Operation in progress
EINTR            POSIX  -  ++++++  Interrupted system call
EINVAL           POSIX  +  ++++++  Invalid argument
EIO              POSIX  +  ++++++  I/O error
EISCONN          POSIX     +++..+  Socket is already connected
EISDIR           POSIX     ++++++  Is a directory
EISNAM                     +.....  Is a named type file
EKEYEXPIRED                +.....  Key has expired
EKEYREJECTED               +.....  Key was rejected by service
EKEYREVOKED                +.....  Key has been revoked
EL2HLT                     +.....  Level 2 halted
EL2NSYNC                   +.....  Level 2 not synchronized
EL3HLT                     +.....  Level 3 halted
EL3RST                     +.....  Level 3 reset
ELIBACC                    +.....  Can not access a needed shared library
ELIBBAD                    +.....  Accessing a corrupted shared library
ELIBEXEC                   +.....  Cannot exec a shared library directly
ELIBMAX                    +.....  Too many shared libraries
ELIBSCN                    +.....  .lib section in a.out corrupted
ELNRNG                     +.....  Link number out of range
ELOOP            POSIX     +++..+  Too many levels of symbolic links
EMEDIUMTYPE                +.....  Wrong medium type
EMFILE           POSIX     ++++++  Too many open files
EMLINK           POSIX     ++++++  Too many links
EMSGSIZE         POSIX     +++..+  Message too long
EMULTIHOP        POSIX     ++4...  Multihop attempted
ENAMETOOLONG     POSIX  -  ++++++  Filen ame too long
ENAVAIL                    +.....  No XENIX semaphores available
ENEEDAUTH                  .++...  Need authenticator
ENETDOWN         POSIX     +++..+  Network is down
ENETRESET        SUSv3     +++..+  Network dropped connection on reset
ENETUNREACH      POSIX     +++..+  Network unreachable
ENFILE           POSIX     ++++++  Too many open files in system
ENOANO                     +.....  No anode
ENOATTR                    .++...  Attribute not found
ENOBUFS          POSIX  -  +++..+  No buffer space available
ENOCSI                     +.....  No CSI structure available
ENODATA          XSR       +N4...  No message available
ENODEV           POSIX  -  ++++++  No such device
ENOENT           POSIX  -  ++++++  No such file or directory
ENOEXEC          POSIX     ++++++  Exec format error
ENOFILE                    ...++.  No such file or directory
ENOKEY                     +.....  Required key not available
ENOLCK           POSIX     ++++++  No locks available
ENOLINK          POSIX     ++4...  Link has been severed
ENOMEDIUM                  +.....  No medium found
ENOMEM           POSIX     ++++++  Not enough space
ENOMSG           POSIX     +++..+  No message of desired type
ENONET                     +.....  Machine is not on the network
ENOPKG                     +.....  Package not installed
ENOPROTOOPT      POSIX     +++..+  Protocol not available
ENOSPC           POSIX     ++++++  No space left on device
ENOSR            XSR       +N4...  No STREAM resources
ENOSTR           XSR       +N4...  Not a STREAM
ENOSYS           POSIX  +  ++++++  Function not implemented
ENOTBLK                    +++...  Block device required
ENOTCONN         POSIX     +++..+  Socket is not connected
ENOTDIR          POSIX     ++++++  Not a directory
ENOTEMPTY        POSIX     ++++++  Directory not empty
ENOTNAM                    +.....  Not a XENIX named type file
ENOTRECOVERABLE  SUSv4  -  +.....  State not recoverable
ENOTSOCK         POSIX     +++..+  Socket operation on non-socket
ENOTSUP          POSIX     +++...  Operation not supported
ENOTTY           POSIX     ++++++  Inappropriate I/O control operation
ENOTUNIQ                   +.....  Name not unique on network
ENXIO            POSIX     ++++++  No such device or address
EOPNOTSUPP       POSIX     +++..+  Operation not supported (on socket)
EOVERFLOW        POSIX     +++..+  Value too large to be stored in data type
EOWNERDEAD       SUSv4     +.....  Owner died
EPERM            POSIX  -  ++++++  Operation not permitted
EPFNOSUPPORT               +++..+  Protocol family not supported
EPIPE            POSIX  -  ++++++  Broken pipe
EPROCLIM                   .++...  Too many processes
EPROCUNAVAIL               .++...  Bad procedure for program
EPROGMISMATCH              .++...  Program version wrong
EPROGUNAVAIL               .++...  RPC prog. not avail
EPROTO           POSIX     ++4...  Protocol error
EPROTONOSUPPORT  POSIX  -  +++ss+  Protocol not supported
EPROTOTYPE       POSIX     +++..+  Protocol wrong type for socket
EPWROFF                    ..+...  Device power is off
ERANGE           C89    -  ++++++  Result too large
EREMCHG                    +.....  Remote address changed
EREMOTE                    +++...  Object is remote
EREMOTEIO                  +.....  Remote I/O error
ERESTART                   +.....  Interrupted system call should be restarted
ERFKILL                    +.....  Operation not possible due to RF-kill
EROFS            POSIX     ++++++  Read-only file system
ERPCMISMATCH               .++...  RPC version wrong
ESHLIBVERS                 ..+...  Shared library version mismatch
ESHUTDOWN                  +++..+  Cannot send after socket shutdown
ESOCKTNOSUPPORT            +++...  Socket type not supported
ESPIPE           POSIX     ++++++  Illegal seek
ESRCH            POSIX     ++++++  No such process
ESRMNT                     +.....  Srmount error
ESTALE           POSIX     +++..+  Stale NFS file handle
ESTRPIPE                   +.....  Streams pipe error
ETIME            XSR       +N4...  Stream ioctl timeout
ETIMEDOUT        POSIX  -  +++ss+  Connection timed out
ETOOMANYREFS               +++...  Too many references: cannot splice
ETXTBSY          POSIX     +++...  Text file busy
EUCLEAN                    +.....  Structure needs cleaning
EUNATCH                    +.....  Protocol driver not attached
EUSERS                     +++...  Too many users
EWOULDBLOCK      POSIX     +++..+  Operation would block
EXDEV            POSIX     ++++++  Cross-device link
EXFULL                     +.....  Exchange full

Notations:

F: used in FFmpeg (-: a few times, +: a lot)

SUSv3: Single Unix Specification, version 3
SUSv4: Single Unix Specification, version 4
XSR: XSI STREAMS (obsolete)

OS: availability on some supported operating systems
L: GNU/Linux
B: BSD (F: FreeBSD, N: NetBSD)
M: MacOS X
W: Microsoft Windows (s: emulated with winsock, see libavformat/network.h)
w: Mingw32 (3.17) and Mingw64 (2.0.1)
b: BeOS
